Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps

Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806120843

Depicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom

Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico

Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico
Author: James E. Sherman
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1975-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806111063

Given in memory of Ethel A. Tsutsui, Ph.D. and Minoru Tsutsui, Ph.D.

Colorado Ghost Towns

Colorado Ghost Towns
Author: Robert L. Brown
Publisher: Caxton Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1972-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780870045301

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This is the third in Robert Brown's series of picturesque guidebooks to another era. In text and photographs he has captured the sense of the historic as well as the nostalgic of a new selection of ghost towns and mining camps that dot the back country byways and high mountain valleys of Colorado.

Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition

Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition
Author: Kevin Singel
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2018-05-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781719553469

Travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included - unlike other books.)Written by a long-time Colorado resident and gold prospector. Based on years of research and field work.Get your share of the gold by prospecting for it in historic, urban, and remote locations across the gold districts of Colorado.

Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies

Ghost Towns of the Colorado Rockies
Author: Robert L. Brown
Publisher: Caxton Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1968
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780870043420

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This book features information and travel directions for sixty of Colorado's ghost towns and mining camps. There is an informal history of each town, along with early and contemporary photographs to aid in site identification.

Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns

Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns
Author: Robert L. Brown
Publisher: Caxton Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1963
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780870040214

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Settle into your four-wheel-drive vehicle or a chair and take off for the mining camps of Colorado! This book is an illustrated history of fifty-nine towns famous during the gold and silver rushes of the 1800s, with directions on how to get to each.

Abandoned Western Colorado

Abandoned Western Colorado
Author: Jeff D. Eberle
Publisher: America Through Time
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781634991919

Series statement from publisher's website.

Historic Photos of Colorado Mining

Historic Photos of Colorado Mining
Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1618583875

In 1859, 100,000 folks started the journey to the Pikes Peak goldfields, but only 50,000 completed the trip. An additional 25,000 soon gave up and went back home. The remainder not only brought statehood to the central Rocky Mountains, but they also brought the industrial world to isolated areas in the high mountains, where they mined mineral deposits for gold, silver, lead, zinc, and copper, among others. This book, Historic Photos of Colorado Mining, provides an introduction to Colorado's mining history through photographs from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Accompanying captions provide specific contexts for the photos and tell the story of the prospectors, miners, engineers, teamsters, railroaders, and townspeople who served as entrepreneurs and workers in industrializing the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Many ruins from the mining days are now recognized as historic landmarks. But the stories behind the ruins are often as fascinating as the ruins themselves—the struggle to survive and thrive in the wilderness is always a compelling tale.